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I've not written him off yet but he really needs to start delivering some returns on the promise he has shown soon!

Centre backs take time and a season of regular footy won't hurt!

Because he wants out and it sounds a lot better than 'I want to go to Liverpool for mega bucks ok, thanks, bye.' Nobody except some deluded fans really swallowed the champions league thing the players all know how football works the problem we have is too many players have peaked at once had a good season and now want to line their pockets with huge amounts of cash and we can't really blame them. I'd quit my job tomorrow if anyone offered to double my salary and if it came with better opportunities that would just be a bonus footballers are no different. Lovren wants out for money and champs league football he would have gone any time Liverpool came knocking don't be sucked in by his PR job designed to force a move without upsetting people.

He's just using that load of waffle as an excuse get handed in a transfer request before any of the deals went through. Turns out he is just another greedy tosser.

Any more comments on the quality from people who have handled one is it upto the standards set by umbro and Adidas or are we back to the scratchy nylon nastiness of the 's' era?

Put a smile on my face, nice to see a thread that isn't doom and gloom depression. Definitely a legend who now, past his best has been put out to pasture for a few easy years before he'd shipped off to the glue factory. Second only to Le Tiss for me in the Legends in my lifetime category.

Will be interesting to hear some feedback on the quality, I'm pleased the stripes are back but all our previous in house kits have been horrible material and finish if it's another one of those then I'm out and I feel sorry for the players who will have to wear it! Please can we have a real brand back next season it was nice to have quality kit for a few years.

LOL DIG DIG That is all.

Agree very disappointing if true, I think 8m is a lot for an unproven 29 year old so if he's not coming for that or less we should look elsewhere. Would rather we went for an up and coming player if we are gambling big bucks.

Still waiting for the examples of this happening, must be hundreds of obvious ones if it is best practice!

If tadic signs he will wear it.

Morgan if he is here, JWP if he is not

This thread is just feeding the trolls if people ignored them they wouldn't post but everyone piles into an alpine thread to feed his attention seeking tolling so of course he carries on doing it! I find the forum much more readable since I made use of the ignore list function (only forum I've ever put someone on it) now if people would just stop quoting the crap that certain people perpetuate then I would be free of it for good. PS wind your neck in son, this thread makes you look like a tosser as does your continued pedantic nit picking of the forum.

Until I read the story where he strongly denies threatening to go on strike and takes legal action against those newspapers perpetuating the story which surely he would do if he hadn't said it I'll not be putting him back on my Christmas card list.

From what I've read some already are and most can't work out where he will play as they think the current options are well ahead of him. It's sad it has ended like this it would have been nice to see Adam move on without the bike and vitriol but it wasn't to be fingers crossed we don't spunk the money on garbage!

I prefer block list bear makes him much more readable, if only people wouldn't quote his inane dross. Good luck to the academy lads, the hard work starts now!

Look back to last summer plenty of people questioned the value of lovren it's only time that has proved him such quality, osvaldo was the one that had everyone excited and he turned out to be a muppet! Where is this obvious quality if which you speak?

Please tell me I missed the sacra as button?

I'd say jwp iis his natural successor, I think that role suits him but I'd rather he was 'blocked' a little longer!

Inclined to agree joint record fee for a teenager and 4th most expensive defender in history from a financial point of view we nailed it. Now we need to invest it.

You forgot to mention the fact he was an uninsured Jamaican international with a dodgy knee!

I've been advocating this for years that and the whistle blows the first time the ball goes dead after time is up and you suddenly have a fair system that doesn't encourage time wasting of stupidly annoying proportions. I can cope when there is a few minutes left of a tight game but I'd swear we see it in the first half of some premier league games when a team fancies a draw. Sadly when ever people talk about modernising the establishment runs a mile, how are we only just seeing goal line technology and the magic spray at top level when both have been available for years?

Agree with this to a certain extent, we have had a great run since relegation bringing through about one top level player a year but there is no guarantee it will last, there was a time whe it looked like utd would never need to buy a player again as everyone who emerged from their youth setup was a first team player but that has dried up dramtically in recent times and they seem to be churning out medicrity these days. My other concern with our accademy is the physical stature of the players we seem really good at producing great littleuns but lack the big strong dominant players that would make a huge difference at this level. If Ward-Prowse was built like Veira we would already be talking 25m+ in the transfer market.

A lot of luck as well, will be interesting to see if the conveyor belt keeps them comming or dries up like united's did in the 90's

Lallana and Shaw goodbye and good luck, neither owes us a bean. Lovren, you owe us another 12 months and you can go unless the offer is totally bonkers and you hand in a transfer request.